Office Manager

We're looking for an Office Manager to join our United Utilities Framework based in Blackburn

Location
:
Blackburn

Hours
: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Kier is proud to be a long term strategic partner to United Utilities, delivering essential water and wastewater infrastructure across the North West. As our programme continues to grow, we are recruiting an experienced Office Manager to support the smooth running of our project offices and ensure the effective delivery of administrative and commercial processes.

• Implementing and managing project administration procedures, ensuring the administration team is coordinated, supported, and delivering consistently.
• Overseeing day to day running of project offices, facilities, and support services, ensuring an efficient, safe, and well‑organised working environment.
• Managing cost capture and financial controls, including GRN collation, invoice verification, exception handling, and accurate financial data entry.
• Leading payroll and labour allocation processes, ensuring accurate time and attendance recording, labour reporting, and absence management.
• Producing and maintaining key cost monitoring and reporting outputs, including weekly labour/plant/material reports and monthly cost tracking.

This role of Office Manager is great for you if you have:

• Strong IT skills, with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Practical understanding of finance systems (Oracle & CPA preferred).
• Experience with time & attendance and access control systems.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier